Avoiding the Christmas Party

[foo]

at the last count, i seem to have got four christmas (work related) party invitations. i see one is with strategic bods ie, top cunts - and they expect me to pay 25 quid for the privaledge of sitting in a posh resteraunt listening to them braying bollocks.

not going to happen.

i reckon the only ones i'll show my face at is my office one cos i can't get out of it and it's free - and my old team's xmas dinner. at that one there will be fun, filth, drinking and dancing, cos, they're human.

 

[Strumpet]

there will be fun, filth, drinking and dancing, cos, they're human.

That's prob. what mine will be like. Is why I'm looking forward to it.

 

[Griff]

Mine's tonight in Covent Garden, a drink then something to eat then some more drink. I've got a hotel booked in central London where Mrs.Griff will be waiting for me later in the evening.

Should be a more civilised affair

Well, that wasn't more civilised. Can't remember getting back to the hotel, and woke up in the lift at 5.45am.

Shit, why do I drink?

 

[May Kasahara]

woke up in the lift at 5.45am.

Shit, why do I drink?

To make pissed-off people like me laugh at anecdotes like this?

 

[pianistenvy]

how can a company charge employees for a xmas party? that seems a bit cheeky...

 

[Mogden]

I'm not going. Our company has actually been barred from venues in the Midlands cos our behaviour is so bad. One year resulted in a good number of emergency services vehicles being called and a request from the head of the venue to our head to call it off early as there was so much anarchy.

There's an unspoken line between the call centre and the rest of the staff which means most of the call centre usually go and us others have been there, done that for enough years to know how shite it is.

 

[Xanadu]

At least if they're charging for it, you don't have to turn up if you don't want to.

 

[Velouria]

i managed to get out of my work one by flatly refusing to pay £60 a head for a night of abba reinactment and 70's disco in a far too posh hotel

wild horses wouldnt have taken me there!

*tries to imagine wiskey there*

*fails*

*laughs uncontrollably *

Lucky escape!

Ours generally don't turn out that bad ... what annoys me is a certain colleague who can't take his drink and usually ends up getting chucked out, or being sick then having to be babysat ... then chucked out ... but yes I do find the stoical forced jollity of having to be happy with people I see all fucking DAY rather grating. The food's good though, and at least it's free

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Ours is on a sodding Saturday and is dull as ditchwater although there is still enormous pressure to attend

It's a blacktie dinner which is table planned so you can't sit with your mates - oh no - that would be too much like having fun on the company's money. You have to sit with a mixture of consulting staff and partners and all the young consultants suck up to the senior partners all evening and talk nothing but work. Which is dull as fuck for support staff. No one gets pissed either.

Then, after anything up to 2 hours of toe-curling boredom over dinner, we get to dance to a shit disco - hurrah


I avoided it this year as I had to drive up to Worcester to look at a campervan Still got hassled by my boss this morning though for not being there. Wanker.

 

[beeboo]

Well, that wasn't more civilised. Can't remember getting back to the hotel, and woke up in the lift at 5.45am.

Shit, why do I drink?

 

[baldrick]

We paid for ours, only £20. it wasn't a chore 'cos we're only a small office anyway. The food was lovely and double G&t's were £4

 

[Cheesypoof]

managed to avoid my xmas party

 

[Kenny Vermouth]

I shall be avoiding ours by not going.

Yep. Can't see anything worse than spending more time with people I already spend anything from 8 to 12 hours a day with.

 

[pinkmonkey]

Haven't been to one for years. When I was an employee, I'd go for the meal and leave before the disco started.

Can't the OP go for one drink and then leave? They won't notice, honestly. No one really noticed when I used to sneak off, they were too busy sinking the free plonk.

 

[Yetman]

We're meant to pay £3 a week for 6 weeks to pay for all the drinks, and its on a Saturday....

So I've avoided paying, cos I'm not going, not cos I didnt want to, but I've had a much better offer of a big 3 day house party....heheheh!

havent told em yet though...

 

[Badgers]

Just found out that the office party is costing £300 per head.........

Would much rather have a few cans in the office and get a bonus!